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“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”

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Author:George Gershwin

“The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.”

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Book:Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts

Source: Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts

“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”

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Author:Kanye West

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

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Author:Walter Savage Landor

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

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Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

“Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.”

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Author:Gioachino Rossini

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment.”

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Author:Charles Ives

“Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.”

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Author:Herbie Hancock

“I find my inspiration in myself.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.”

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Author:Sean Lennon

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”